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the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned. you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be this openness for spontaneity. also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. it is a lot like listening. really listening to watch what
the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned. you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then...
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the last thing i will say is, we are now in an environment that all of the low-hanging fruit is gone, just being completely candid. people hate to hear that and people like to say the best thing you can do and that you can do, well, i completely appreciate those thoughts that we do live in a fiscal reality that is governed by agencies like cbo. we have to look at ideas that are scorable. and at this point once again i can only speak for my office and my boss, we are much more deeply engaged on entitlement reform side because we do believe that the end of the day if you really want to put an actual consistent downward pressure on health care cost, the way to do it is by reforming our entitlement system. and health care delivery reform is part of it but it's a two-part solution. it's not just a focus on one to make a look at the other because it's more tough to do at a later date. i think the time has now come to kind of swallow the tough medicine and start addressing both of these ideas together. >> from the other side of the aisle. >> i associate myself with most of the remarks had be
the last thing i will say is, we are now in an environment that all of the low-hanging fruit is gone, just being completely candid. people hate to hear that and people like to say the best thing you can do and that you can do, well, i completely appreciate those thoughts that we do live in a fiscal reality that is governed by agencies like cbo. we have to look at ideas that are scorable. and at this point once again i can only speak for my office and my boss, we are much more deeply engaged on...
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it is very different than the environment we have grown up then. the ability to take the benefit and roll it together, when you start to think about retirement projections, you really have a comprehensive view of what you have accumulated and you continue to build on that. we have studied participants age 20 to age 24 and 51% never engage in a plan at all. 4% of this population will cash out, i'm sorry, 24%. 33%, maybe they get to 4% from a cash them out, they will never accumulate a retirement. >> i would like to touch base on a couple of things. financial literacy, the pension committee and we need to have financial literacy education. i forgot who assigned you, was a senator and the aid reign i would like to have your students work on a math curriculum uses all of the issues and the retirement to teach math also teach financial literacy at the same time. because we used to have shop and home back and pole is home economics. so there is a place for us to help kids understand the world they are going into. so they don't get in trouble with credit
it is very different than the environment we have grown up then. the ability to take the benefit and roll it together, when you start to think about retirement projections, you really have a comprehensive view of what you have accumulated and you continue to build on that. we have studied participants age 20 to age 24 and 51% never engage in a plan at all. 4% of this population will cash out, i'm sorry, 24%. 33%, maybe they get to 4% from a cash them out, they will never accumulate a...
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something else, i think that disparity begins to establish a psychology that in some cases led to that environment. i have to believe the more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally. >> reporter: the decision comes nearly two and a half years after the repeal of another ban "don't ask, don't tell" which barred gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military. >> ifill: for more on how this came together, and what comes >> brown: still to come on the newshour: confirmation hearings for secretary of state nominee john kerry ... china's growth bubble ... and an online "fireside chat" with vice president biden. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president obama announced his nominees today to run two key financial regulatory agencies. he tapped mary jo white to chair the securities and exchange commission. she's a former federal prosecutor in new york, with a long record of prosecuting financial fraud and other white- collar crimes. >> if confirmed by the senate, i look forward to committing all of my energies
something else, i think that disparity begins to establish a psychology that in some cases led to that environment. i have to believe the more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally. >> reporter: the decision comes nearly two and a half years after the repeal of another ban "don't ask, don't tell" which barred gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military. >> ifill: for more on how this came together, and what comes...
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you could find yourself in a lawless environment in this country. the story was about a place called koreatown. there are marauding gangs going through the area burning stores, looting and robbing. the vice-president said in response to me, he said, no, you would be better off with a 12 gauge shotgun. that is his opinion, and i respect it. i have an ar-15 at home and i have not hurt anybody and i do not intend to, but i would be better off protecting my family if there was law-and-order breakdown in my neighborhood. i do not think that makes me an unreasonable person. mr. trotter when you say you speak on behalf of millions of women out there who believe an ar-15 makes them safer, there were a lot of giggles in the room, and that explains the dilemma. the people who were giggling were saying to you, that is crazy. nobody i know thinks that way. which reminds me of the harvard professor who said i cannot believe mcgovern lost. everyone i knew voted for him. i bet there are people on our side that cannot believe obama won because everyone they know vo
you could find yourself in a lawless environment in this country. the story was about a place called koreatown. there are marauding gangs going through the area burning stores, looting and robbing. the vice-president said in response to me, he said, no, you would be better off with a 12 gauge shotgun. that is his opinion, and i respect it. i have an ar-15 at home and i have not hurt anybody and i do not intend to, but i would be better off protecting my family if there was law-and-order...
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i mean, there are citizens in my state who do not live in a secure environment. we live in a pretty secure environment here in the senate, have guards and there's people every night in the part -- the southern part of my state that have drug traffickers and people going across, the guns. >> so how do you convince republicans about the path to citizenship? >> well, look, i'll give you a little straight talk. look at the last election. look at the last election. we are losing dramatically the hispanic vote, which we think should be ours for a variety of reasons, and we've got to understand that. second of all, this -- we can't go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. we cannot forever have children who were born here -- who were brought here by their parents when they were small children to live in the shadows, as well. so i think the time is right. by the way, we just acted to avert i nuclear option in the senate, believe it or not, i see some glimmer of bipartisanship out there. >> how about we've got presid
i mean, there are citizens in my state who do not live in a secure environment. we live in a pretty secure environment here in the senate, have guards and there's people every night in the part -- the southern part of my state that have drug traffickers and people going across, the guns. >> so how do you convince republicans about the path to citizenship? >> well, look, i'll give you a little straight talk. look at the last election. look at the last election. we are losing...
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and i've worked in the political environment. i was a county party chairman, the only female, in 1989. so what you have to have, and whether it's the military or whether it's corporate america, you've got to have a critical mass of women who are helping to raise up other women and to open those doors kind of to gently push up and to challenge. >> xerox, ibm, the new head of yahoo!. it's changing. >> and they're successful in their ventures, and they'll pave the way. >> and these are women that lean in and are not afraid of what it looks like. >> they're not afraid of getting it done. >> exactly. congresswoman marsha blackburn, thank you so much. >> good to be with you. >> thank you, marsha. >>> still ahead, putting the new in "new republic," the magazine that's been around since 1914 gets a face-lift. the magazine's publisher, chris hughes, and editor tfank, frank join us. ocker from the home depot... ...the best selling paint and primer in one that now eliminates stains. so it paints over stained surfaces, scuffed surfaces, just
and i've worked in the political environment. i was a county party chairman, the only female, in 1989. so what you have to have, and whether it's the military or whether it's corporate america, you've got to have a critical mass of women who are helping to raise up other women and to open those doors kind of to gently push up and to challenge. >> xerox, ibm, the new head of yahoo!. it's changing. >> and they're successful in their ventures, and they'll pave the way. >> and...
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republicans have a history of responsible stewardship of the environment. the hard right turn to the party from its own path and conservative panic you remake that that in the book. >> you talk about the 20 tens house of representatives and focus on republicans. you also look at democrats in regards to anti-legislation? >> a handful tended to be from fossil fuel states that are reliant on the shows of the past. upper trying to say is we need to continue to invest in the country in renewable fuels and efficient he is solar and wind and we make that case while we continue to makewar on this country, oil and gas needs to be moving towards cleaner, safer, more sustainable fuel. not overnight, but over time. >> as president obama does enough in terms of environmental regulation? >> president obama has worked hard to make progress, but there's a lot more to be done. president obama worked hard with the automakers to double the fuel efficiency of our cars by 2025. that is going to save consumers $100 a year at the pump. that's good progress. in opportunity he has
republicans have a history of responsible stewardship of the environment. the hard right turn to the party from its own path and conservative panic you remake that that in the book. >> you talk about the 20 tens house of representatives and focus on republicans. you also look at democrats in regards to anti-legislation? >> a handful tended to be from fossil fuel states that are reliant on the shows of the past. upper trying to say is we need to continue to invest in the country in...
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consumers are continuing to face economic challenges and this uncertain economic environment sn environment. >> you know, jackie just mentioned coach. you will bring us through some winners and sinners too. >> everyone is in on this trade. the last five years haven't been the best on the 50e cannot my but a little retail therapy helped investors along the way. since 2007, three of the top ten of the s&p 500 are consumer discretionary companies. also, making up nearly half of the 42 component that have doubled in that time period with those bar bell retail traids providing investors with the highest returns. discounters including ross stores, tjx, dollar tree and family dollar, all gaining a hundred percent or more since the october 2007 peak, but so too have ralph lauren and fossil on the high ends. on the dow, home depot come in as the top performer. wal-mart number four. so home depot and wal-mart are two that are up double digits. consumer discretionary groups, both leading the broader s&p 500. but the bulk of retail earners are yet to hit the tape. that could change everything. especial
consumers are continuing to face economic challenges and this uncertain economic environment sn environment. >> you know, jackie just mentioned coach. you will bring us through some winners and sinners too. >> everyone is in on this trade. the last five years haven't been the best on the 50e cannot my but a little retail therapy helped investors along the way. since 2007, three of the top ten of the s&p 500 are consumer discretionary companies. also, making up nearly half of the...
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the pricing environment in the u.s. seems to be healthy and that's our expectations going through 2013. >> as you take a look at shares of ford, keep this in mind. it's a stock while down 5% this year, up 6.5% last year. a the lo are saying this the evaluation play for now. until definite that they will move higher you might be getting ahead of yourself. you have a guest later that might say buy now but that's the evaluation. >> over at stern senior analyst mike ward from that firm joins us now. he's got a buy on the stock. mike, what is the single or most one or two powerful arguments you've got for our audience about why they need to spend their hard earned money on ford stock. >> thanks for having me. first off in europe, mentioned the company did expect a loss of $2 billion in 2013. about half of that or close to a billion dollars, one-time unusual charges that won't occur again in 2014. ford is being very proactive in its restructuring in europe. that's good news. >> sorry, go ahead. >> i'm sorry, go ahead. the sec
the pricing environment in the u.s. seems to be healthy and that's our expectations going through 2013. >> as you take a look at shares of ford, keep this in mind. it's a stock while down 5% this year, up 6.5% last year. a the lo are saying this the evaluation play for now. until definite that they will move higher you might be getting ahead of yourself. you have a guest later that might say buy now but that's the evaluation. >> over at stern senior analyst mike ward from that firm...
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something else, i think that disparity begins to establish a psychology that in some cases led to that environment. i have to believe the more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally. >> reporter: the decision comes nearly two and a half years after the repeal of another ban "don't ask, don't tell" which barred gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military. >> ifill: for more on how this came together, and what comes >> brown: still to come on the newshour: confirmation hearings for secretary of state nominee john kerry ... china's growth bubble ... and an online "fireside chat" with vice president biden. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president obama announced his nominees today to run two key financial regulatory agencies. he tapped mary jo white to chair the securities and exchange commission. she's a former federal prosecutor in new york, with a long record of prosecuting financial fraud and other white- collar crimes. >> if confirmed by the senate, i look forward to committing all of my energies
something else, i think that disparity begins to establish a psychology that in some cases led to that environment. i have to believe the more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally. >> reporter: the decision comes nearly two and a half years after the repeal of another ban "don't ask, don't tell" which barred gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military. >> ifill: for more on how this came together, and what comes...
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one is we still want an environment and policies that support medical innovation. two, we want to also make sure that we have policies that support the improvement of the quality of health care in this country. and third, we also want policies that support the competitiveness of u.s. businesses. if we're able to generate policies that engender that and foster that kind of general we think we can have a very conducive pharmaceutical industry and biotech industry in this country. >> i have a question for you. this is a layman's question. are you finding, what's the split of revenue for domestic versus international and are you growing faster domestically or internationally and in the international markets you face a lot of regulatory pressure that you don't that's different than what you see here? that's three questions in one. >> today our business is split about 50/50. half the business in the u.s., and half outside the u.s. from a regulatory standpoint we've seen a harmonization between the u.s. and europe. obviously in some of the more developed markets like chin
one is we still want an environment and policies that support medical innovation. two, we want to also make sure that we have policies that support the improvement of the quality of health care in this country. and third, we also want policies that support the competitiveness of u.s. businesses. if we're able to generate policies that engender that and foster that kind of general we think we can have a very conducive pharmaceutical industry and biotech industry in this country. >> i have...
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introducing women into that environment can be really traumatic and humiliating. >> jon: i'm going to jump in here. first of all, i know a lot of german businessmen who would pay good money for that. secondly, you're in a war zone. you're in a war zone and your big worry is dying of embarrassment? and by the way, i think i figured something out here. if men are going to be poohing inches from their female comrade's face, i believe that solves your eros problem. eros is irrational but it's not [bleep] crazy. all right. our own samantha bee explores this more in depth with this report >> reporter: last week defense secretary leon panetta made military history when he lifted the ban on women serving in combat. immediately, objections were raised. >> there is a difference in the physicality of women and men >> it's a terrible idea. you're going to have the sex assault problem >> people are going to die reporter: author and military expert kingsley brown >> women in combat positions are a threat to military cohesion. it's not clear that men can actually bond with women the way they bond wi
introducing women into that environment can be really traumatic and humiliating. >> jon: i'm going to jump in here. first of all, i know a lot of german businessmen who would pay good money for that. secondly, you're in a war zone. you're in a war zone and your big worry is dying of embarrassment? and by the way, i think i figured something out here. if men are going to be poohing inches from their female comrade's face, i believe that solves your eros problem. eros is irrational but it's...
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that you need long-term stable environments. because when we look into plants or other investments we look out 10, 15 years. >> sounds like you're saying it was a mistake to make this speech. >> i'm not saying anything. you're asking me how do i believe investment positions could be affected. >> the other topic we've been talking about has been energy and energy policy in the united states. and it was making me think given the possibility of fracking and shale and everything else going on, does that give you any sense that you would make additional investments in the united states? >> andrew, already done. i think what we've seen in the united states is a great example that the energy direction of the united states is really competitiveness agenda. we see reindustrialization initiatives already happening. chemicals are coming back to the u.s. we will see further industrial build-out coming back to the united states. for us in twofolds it's a great growth business opportunities, for big and most modern gas turbine plant which we
that you need long-term stable environments. because when we look into plants or other investments we look out 10, 15 years. >> sounds like you're saying it was a mistake to make this speech. >> i'm not saying anything. you're asking me how do i believe investment positions could be affected. >> the other topic we've been talking about has been energy and energy policy in the united states. and it was making me think given the possibility of fracking and shale and everything...
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what do you do in that environment? you make sure you're figuring out ways to grow organically. you make sure that you're continuing to be lean in your performance as best as possible. and you look at your portfolio. >> steve real quick in the board room confidence level if confidence was off the charts in 2007 at one to ten they were at a ten, what is it now? >> i think right now, six. and an opportunity, i'm really feeling some optimism, people think we're going to get it together in this country. >> steve thank you for being here this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> appreciate it very much. >> coming up, "squawk" is going to -- didn't have time top i tried to get some yes. tomorrow we have the kansas drummer. you really cleaned yourself up from when you were the guitar player for yes, steve howe, and the pitcher that actually he's dead i think so you're doing a lot better than him. >> i live a cleaner life. >> than either steve howe. tyler mathisen will join us to talk about his new documentary, speaking of steve howe. debt. it's a living. >>> tomorrow on "squawk box," i
what do you do in that environment? you make sure you're figuring out ways to grow organically. you make sure that you're continuing to be lean in your performance as best as possible. and you look at your portfolio. >> steve real quick in the board room confidence level if confidence was off the charts in 2007 at one to ten they were at a ten, what is it now? >> i think right now, six. and an opportunity, i'm really feeling some optimism, people think we're going to get it together...
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when america is absent, especially from unstable environments, there are consequences. extremism takes root. our interests suffer. our security at home is threatened. >> i think she is trying to warn the administration and the world that we cannot retreat from this engagement here. and right now, overnight, we've seen that the u.s. is doing refueling of french fighters in mali, which is very troublesome to some. it is a much more aggressive posture. but the uk has taken all of their nationals out of somalia overnight. this area of north africa as bob and ted were just saying is the most dangerous perhaps in the world, aside from pakistan and afghanistan which are nuclear armed against each other. and pakistan and india nuclear armed against each other and what's happening in afghanistan as we retreat and the effect on that and north korea. so they have to really not just look at immigration and guns and the budget as the next challenges here. >> have we figured out, senator, what the balance is between invasions, nation building, a huge commitment on the part of the uni
when america is absent, especially from unstable environments, there are consequences. extremism takes root. our interests suffer. our security at home is threatened. >> i think she is trying to warn the administration and the world that we cannot retreat from this engagement here. and right now, overnight, we've seen that the u.s. is doing refueling of french fighters in mali, which is very troublesome to some. it is a much more aggressive posture. but the uk has taken all of their...
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it's a collection of scholarly and journalistic articles about the taliban and it environment in southern afghanistan and western pakistan. and it was born as an attempt at new america by a diverse group of researchers to try to get at some of the diversity of the taliban itself at a time when the united states was really puzzling over its resurgence as a movement, as a political force in afghanistan, as a military challenge, and really a challenge that had been neglected in the years after the 2001 defeat of the islamic emirates of afghanistan in which revived and presented itself as a really grave dilemma to the obama administration as it arrived in 2009. and so our effort was to do what think tanks do which is just to try to provide some ground truth and some complexity and granularity about this phenomenon, recognizing that the sort of clicheed iml imagine of a one-eyed mullah and his band of devoted and intractable fanatics was inadequate and really a falsifying of the problem. so the purpose was not to prosecute a particular view of the taliban, but just to start to document some se
it's a collection of scholarly and journalistic articles about the taliban and it environment in southern afghanistan and western pakistan. and it was born as an attempt at new america by a diverse group of researchers to try to get at some of the diversity of the taliban itself at a time when the united states was really puzzling over its resurgence as a movement, as a political force in afghanistan, as a military challenge, and really a challenge that had been neglected in the years after the...
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macro environment for the euro is decidedly upwards. that's not to say that currency may not weaken to the u.s. dollar but there is not that kind of explosion that people were hoping for. so i would avoid being short things like this. particularly as retail investor. where you're not able to sit in central banking meetings. >> 134, 135 is where you're sitting, the euro has been. 134 1/2. joey? >> anadarco was a stock we were talking about 80, it got there today. look, if you're a near term trader, you take some off fund manically. the story changed for anadarko. i think this is a name you own. >> stepm? >> such a good performer. not even that expensive. the long-term average is about 15 1/2 times. i think theme parks will do very well this quarter and into 2013 continue to do good. in terms of studio as well. and one interesting thing about disney is they spent the last couple of years, a ton of money, on investment, right? that goes away in 2013 s think you might have margin. on a pull-back, i would be a buyer. >> let's talk some waste
macro environment for the euro is decidedly upwards. that's not to say that currency may not weaken to the u.s. dollar but there is not that kind of explosion that people were hoping for. so i would avoid being short things like this. particularly as retail investor. where you're not able to sit in central banking meetings. >> 134, 135 is where you're sitting, the euro has been. 134 1/2. joey? >> anadarco was a stock we were talking about 80, it got there today. look, if you're a...
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article, and i think peter fisher was quoted in that article, there is a very sound point to a low-rate environment and banks effectively being unwilling to lend at these low rates. i think that is a fantastic point for the near term. more long-term, our real worry is about the exit. >> susie: real quickly, i want to ask you about the jobs report that comes out on friday because more people get jobs, it is good for the economy. >> right. >> susie: might there be a surprise that more hiring is going on? >> we do not expect any surprises, at least not any upward surprises. it is interesting, almost over any time bucket over the last year, the average job gain has been about 150,000 mer month. 150,000 -- per month. where the aggregate demand hasn't picked up, companies are not picking up the hiring. we're looking for 150,000 a month, per average. >> susie: that's kind of look warm, but thank you, tom for coming on the show. we've been talking with tom porcelli, chief mist at rbc cap >> tom: despite a strong end to the year, ford stock fell more than 4.5% today. the concern is, ford doesn't think this
article, and i think peter fisher was quoted in that article, there is a very sound point to a low-rate environment and banks effectively being unwilling to lend at these low rates. i think that is a fantastic point for the near term. more long-term, our real worry is about the exit. >> susie: real quickly, i want to ask you about the jobs report that comes out on friday because more people get jobs, it is good for the economy. >> right. >> susie: might there be a surprise...
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fortunately, we're not talking about built-up areas, drones can be more useful in that kind of environment. our allies seem to want to take the lead. but we're going to have to be much more supportive than we're now willing to be in that area. and we're going to have to think hard about other places like syria. >> right. >> where there's, you know, a massive loss of life, 60,000 already. and we're hanging back there. again, i think out of reluctance to get too involved because of the slippery slope that in the end will have to be militarily involved and the people and the president have better things to do. >> a piece in "the wall street journal" this week saying basically there's too much reaction to iraq and inaction here he compares to the first president bush not doing anything about the shiite uprising in iraq in 1991, which he argued led ultimately to the second gulf war. i think that may be an area where people would debate, but what are the consequences of the u.s. hanging back in syria? >> well, if we hang back in syria, there could be a dissent into chaos. it's already headed in
fortunately, we're not talking about built-up areas, drones can be more useful in that kind of environment. our allies seem to want to take the lead. but we're going to have to be much more supportive than we're now willing to be in that area. and we're going to have to think hard about other places like syria. >> right. >> where there's, you know, a massive loss of life, 60,000 already. and we're hanging back there. again, i think out of reluctance to get too involved because of...
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>> well, we were certainly aware of the increasing threat environment. i not only was briefed on that, i testified to that effect. and there were constant evaluations going on. but no one, not the ambassador, security professionals, the intelligence community ever recommended closing that mission. and the reason they didn't was because the ongoing threat environment had up until the spring before our terrible attack in benghazi been a result of post-conflict conditions. that is something that we're familiar with all over the world. yes, there were some attacks, as you have said, but our evaluation of them and the recommendation by the security professionals was that those were all manageable because we had a lot of that around the world. i mean, there is a long list of attacks that have been foiled, assassination plots that have been prevented. so this is not some -- you know, one off event. this is considered in an atmosphere of a lot of threats and dangers. and at the end of the day, you know, there was a decision made that this would be evaluated but
>> well, we were certainly aware of the increasing threat environment. i not only was briefed on that, i testified to that effect. and there were constant evaluations going on. but no one, not the ambassador, security professionals, the intelligence community ever recommended closing that mission. and the reason they didn't was because the ongoing threat environment had up until the spring before our terrible attack in benghazi been a result of post-conflict conditions. that is something...
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we need to protect their environment. we have a strict quarantine system to protect the integrity of the environment. forty years on, it's still a class-a nature reserve. it's our job to look after them. ...it's my job to look after it. ♪ >>> welcome back to "the kudlow report." i'm larry kudlow. in this half hour the house passes a bill to suspend the debt ceiling but the spending sequester cuts are still set to kick in on march 1st and i hope they do. now house speaker john boehner says president obama is out to annihilate the republican party. we'll talk about all that with new hampshire senator kelly ayotte and our political panel in just a few moments. >> also, big time golfers phil mickelson, tiger woods, lebron james and derek jeter are all supply siders. we'll explain that later this hour. >> i wasn't involved in the talking points process. as i understand it, as i've been told, it was a typical interagency process where staff, including from the state department all participated to try to come up with whatever
we need to protect their environment. we have a strict quarantine system to protect the integrity of the environment. forty years on, it's still a class-a nature reserve. it's our job to look after them. ...it's my job to look after it. ♪ >>> welcome back to "the kudlow report." i'm larry kudlow. in this half hour the house passes a bill to suspend the debt ceiling but the spending sequester cuts are still set to kick in on march 1st and i hope they do. now house speaker...
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when you consider how competitive the retail environment is, apparently the national retail federation polled its members and found that none actually plan to add the fee. you've got, for example, toys r us and target. they told nbc news that they would not be passing that on to shoppers. >> profit margins are so skinny when we're talking about retail. >> right. >> let's move to this. the suffering could soon be over for fans of devil dogs, ring dings and yodels. >> reportedly mckee foods that makes little debbie snack cakes is reportedly offering $25 million to $30 million for hostess brand's drake's brands. the drake assets are apparently composed mostly of intellectual property and also some equipment. >> intellectual property? >> yeah. hostess also on friday won a judge's permission to place two other bread assets on the auction block. as part of this liquidation process, richard, hostess's various brands, the bread, ringdings, twinkies, they're all being auctioned off and hopefully sold off to lucky buyers. >> i think we just did this story because we wanted to say ring dings and
when you consider how competitive the retail environment is, apparently the national retail federation polled its members and found that none actually plan to add the fee. you've got, for example, toys r us and target. they told nbc news that they would not be passing that on to shoppers. >> profit margins are so skinny when we're talking about retail. >> right. >> let's move to this. the suffering could soon be over for fans of devil dogs, ring dings and yodels. >>...
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>> the commodity environment we saw the last few years. certainly a better environment from a foreign exchange standpoint. multinational company earning profits. >> forex. and europe is better? >> europe, northern europe is pretty good. southern europe is still a challenge, because your previous guest would indicate. >> all right. you don't sell a lot of soap in certain countries over there. no, i'm kidding! i don't mean to -- i don't mean, you know, deodorant in one country in particular. let me think, anything else, jon, china? how's asia? >> asia is good. china is good. we grew high single digits in china. we expect that to accelerate as the year progresses. so generally our developing market business is very healthy. we grew 7% overall. 11% in the brick markets. over 20% in brazil and india. so that continues to be where a disproportionate amount of growth is coming. at the same time we're strengthening our develop market business which is starting to accelerate a little bit. >> thanks, john. hope to see you again next quarter so we ca
>> the commodity environment we saw the last few years. certainly a better environment from a foreign exchange standpoint. multinational company earning profits. >> forex. and europe is better? >> europe, northern europe is pretty good. southern europe is still a challenge, because your previous guest would indicate. >> all right. you don't sell a lot of soap in certain countries over there. no, i'm kidding! i don't mean to -- i don't mean, you know, deodorant in one...